doup Sc.
(daʊp)
Forms: 6 dolp, 6–9 doup, 7 doupe, 7–9 dowp.
[Of Norse origin: cf. ON. daup.]
† 1. A rounded cavity or hollow bottom. Obs.
| 1513 Douglas æneis iii. x. 15 Off his E dolp the flowand blude and attir He wische away. 1641 Fergusson Scot. Prov. 7 (Jam.) Better half egg than toom dowp. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. vi, Castor and Pollux [born] of the doupe of that Egge which was laid..by Leda. |
2. The posterior extremity of the body, the fundament or seat.
| 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. xxii, At the salt doup [Fr. au cul sallé, the name of a game]. 1718 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xxii, A' the skaith that chanc'd indeed, Was only on their dowps. 1817 J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 257 Sax and therty lashes a piece on the bare doup. |
3. The bottom or end (of any thing), e.g. the rounded end of a candle.
| 1718 Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. x, I' the doup o' day. 1774 T. Scott Poems 319 (Jam.), At the doup o' e'en. 1816 Scott Antiq. v, The doup o' a candle. 1894 Crockett Lilac Sunb. 72 What remained of the smooth candle ‘dowp’. |
b. A loop at the end.
| 1831 G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 285 The half leaf..passes through the upper doup of the standard. |